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The Guest List: A Novel Audiobook
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A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK
“I loved this book. It gave me the same waves of happiness I get from curling up with a classic Christie...The alternating points of view keep you guessing, and guessing wrong.” — Alex Michaelides, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Silent Patient
""Evok[es] the great Agatha Christie classics…Pay close attention to seemingly throwaway details about the characters’ pasts. They are all clues.” -- New York Times Book Review
A wedding celebration turns dark and deadly in this deliciously wicked and atmospheric thriller reminiscent of Agatha Christie from the New York Times bestselling author of The Hunting Party.
The bride – The plus one – The best man – The wedding planner – The bridesmaid – The body
On an island off the coast of Ireland, guests gather to celebrate two people joining their lives together as one. The groom: handsome and charming, a rising television star. The bride: smart and ambitious, a magazine publisher. It’s a wedding for a magazine, or for a celebrity: the designer dress, the remote location, the luxe party favors, the boutique whiskey. The cell phone service may be spotty and the waves may be rough, but every detail has been expertly planned and will be expertly executed.
But perfection is for plans, and people are all too human. As the champagne is popped and the festivities begin, resentments and petty jealousies begin to mingle with the reminiscences and well wishes. The groomsmen begin the drinking game from their school days. The bridesmaid not-so-accidentally ruins her dress. The bride’s oldest (male) friend gives an uncomfortably caring toast.
And then someone turns up dead. Who didn’t wish the happy couple well? And perhaps more important, why?
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"The bookclub selected "The Guest List"- the thriller genre that I have never enjoyed reading before. However, the narrator and the setup listening on phone while driving/walking made it enjoyable. The author's descriptive writing about each person's dark side and struggles made me wonder what is going to happen and who will be the victim. A 5 stars! "
— WJC (5 out of 5 stars)
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“I loved this book…The alternating points of view keep you guessing, and guessing wrong.”
— Alex Michaelides, New York Times bestselling author -
“Wedding season means a thrilling web of mystery in The Guest List.”
— Parade -
“Evok[es] the great Agatha Christie classics…Pay close attention to seemingly throwaway details about the characters’ pasts. They are all clues.”
— New York Times -
“An Agatha Christie-like thriller.”
— Huffington Post -
"[Foley’s] puzzle is solid, she plays fair with the reader, and overall her story is swift and entertaining.”
— Seattle Times
Awards
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A June 2020 LibraryReads Pick
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New York Times bestseller
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New York Times Bestseller in Audio
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An iBooks bestseller in Mysteries
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A Reese’s Book Club Pick
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A Library Journal Editor’s Pick of Best Audiobooks
The Guest List Listener Reviews
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kim topping, 5/10/2022
About Lucy Foley
Lucy Foley is the author of five novels, including The Guest List, The Hunting Party, and the #1 New York Times bestseller, The Paris Apartment. She studied English literature at Durham University and University College London and worked for several years as a fiction editor in the publishing industry.
About the Narrators
Chloe Massey is an actress, audiobook narrator, and writer. She is best known for playing Rachel Fuller on the TV series Doctors.
Aoife McMahon, an Earphones Award–winning narrator, is an Irish actress with extensive experience in theater and television. She won the 2002 Best Actress Gemini Award for Random Passage opposite Colm Meaney. She has also performed with the Royal Shakespeare Company at the Old Vic and has toured the United Kingdom with Goodnight Mister Tom.
Jot Davies is a television and voice actor who has recorded dozens of audiobooks, including Ben Goldacre’s Bad Pharma and multiple works by Charles Cumming and Paul Strathern. His acting credits include roles in the television shows Casualty, New Tricks, and Hotel Babylon, as well as the video game Haze.